North Korea Increases Crackdown on Mobile Phone Use Along Chinese Border
This shouldn’t come as much of as surprise to people who follow North Korea:
North Korea stepped up restrictions on the use of Chinese mobile networks near the border last year in an apparent effort to control the flow of outside information, human rights organization Amnesty International has said.
Yonhap
In a recent report on North Korea’s human rights situation, the group said the reclusive regime has strengthened efforts to trace the activities of smuggled mobile phones using Chinese networks and block the signals in the border areas over the past few years.
“Individuals interviewed by Amnesty International in 2018 reported that the situation has not improved despite the recent dialogue between officials from the two Koreas,” it said. “Rather, communications through the Chinese mobile network have become even more difficult and risky in 2018.”
You can read more at the link, but as I have always believed the Kim regime is more concerned about subversive information than the threat of US military led regime change.
The news cycle has long passed it; but Kim Fatty III has not forgotten those unauthorized photos of him at his command center that Trump or Mattis released prior to the negotiations beginning.
A knowledge of where he’s at, where he’s going to be, where his C3 is at, and so on is potentially much more valuable to the chubby pasha’s enemies than 10,000 nukes…
And we, apparently, have the knowledge–as well as multiple delivery systems–for “surgical” strikes using conventional weapons. As RockTroll often reminds us, Trump has no need to nuke the norks.
Besides, they need to work out golden parachutes for all the senior party members so Kim Fatty himself doesn’t end up with hookers smearing his face with two-part poison at an airport some time in the future…